HP Exits Media Center Business: Touchsmart Lives On

By Rob Enderle
April 1st, 2007

It has to be tough when the leader in a segment you are trying to get off the ground exits it saying they simply don’t have enough resources to get it to work. For HP this has been a long road because they have been working on products in this class since before there was a Media Center and they continue with their somewhat related Touchsmart and MediaSmart TVs with built in media capability. Gateway, who had several of the more innovative MCE based products, also exited this segment though they did it some time ago. 
So what happened to the Media Center and why didn’t it work out better?
Hardware Fell Short
We’ll get to software in a moment but the real promise of the Media Center was simplification. The idea that in one product you could have a super receiver with ...

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